The Month in Movies - February 2005

[A.J. Hakari]

Well, schmoes, it's that time of the month again. It's the end of February, so now 'tis time for me to unleash the new edition of the Month in Movies, a summary of my cinematic viewings for these 28 days of February. And here they be, on a **** scale...

Number of First-Time Viewings: 40

Number of First Time Viewings in 2005 to Date: 91

THE BRILLIANT

The Yes Men - ****
The Aviator (2004) - ****

THE GREAT

The Vagina Monologues - *** 1/2
Million Dollar Baby - *** 1/2

THE PURTY GOOD

Battle Royale - ***
Coach Carter - ***
I Heart Huckabees - ***
In Good Company - ***
Constantine - ***
Hitch - ***
The Minus Man - ***
Prince of Darkness - ***
September Tapes - ***
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - ***
Melvin Goes to Dinner - ***
The Maltese Falcon - ***

THE O.K.

Around the Bend - ** 1/2
The Last Horror Movie - ** 1/2
Cube Zero - ** 1/2

THE SO-SO

Chain of Fools - **
The Last Ride - **
Because of Winn-Dixie - **
Speakeasy - **
Eulogy - **
America's Heart & Soul - **

THE SUCKY

Cursed - * 1/2
Blue Car - * 1/2
Boogeyman - * 1/2
Nine Lives - * 1/2
Hatchetman - * 1/2
Beowulf - * 1/2
A Return to Salem's Lot - * 1/2

THE REALLY SUCKY

Man of the House (2005) - *
Guilty by Association - *
Soho Square - *
Into the Sun (2005) - *
Evil Remains - 1/2 *
Son of the Mask - no stars
Holla! If I Kill You - no stars

No rating:

"Mystery Science Theater 3000": Beginning of the End

THE BEST:

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THE WORST:

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Best Actor: Samuel L. Jackson, COACH CARTER
Best Actress: Agnes Bruckner, BLUE CAR
Best Supporting Actor: Takeshi Kitano, BATTLE ROYALE
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, THE AVIATOR (2004)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, THE AVIATOR (2004)
Best Original Screenplay: John Logan, THE AVIATOR (2004)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Haggis, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Biggest Surprise: THE LAST HORROR MOVIE
Biggest Disappointment: BLUE CAR
Most Fucked-Up Movie: I HEART HUCKABEES
"I'm Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This": SOHO SQUARE
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Kitano (Takeshi Kitano), BATTLE ROYALE
"Why Is He/She Still in Movies?": Steven Seagal, INTO THE SUN (2005)
Recurring Genre: Shitty horror movies
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Any of the agonizingly long and unfunny standup routines, HOLLA! IF I KILL YOU
Best Line: "My vagina is furious!" - Eve Ensler, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Best Scene: The Beverly Hills plane crash, THE AVIATOR (2004)
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: BATTLE ROYALE
Coolest Title: BATTLE ROYALE

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Chip in with your viewing lists for Feb. '05! :cool:

[jaw2929]

Adam, if you're so busy watching movies all the time, how is it you've got time to come here and post over 31,000 times? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm truly curious.... Do you not work? All legitimate questions.... :p

[ilovemovies]

Amount of movies seen for the first time: an incredibly sucky 16.

Amount of rewatches: an abysmal 5

That's a pathetic total of only 21! God I suck!

Ranking the movies seen for the first time:

1. Sideways
2. Finding Neverland
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. Ray
6. Constantine
7. White Noise
8. The Fly
9. Man of the House
10. Because of Winn-Dixie
11. Tequilla Sunrise
12. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
13. A Perfect World
14. Hide and Seek
15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
16. Brotherhood of Justice

Rewatches:

1. Almost Famous
2. Cellular
3. Assualt on Precinct 13
4. Executive Decision
5. Eraser

Best movie seen overall (includes rewatches): Almost Famous

The rest of these are for first timers only:

Best actor: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
runner-up: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda

Best actress: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
runner-up: AnnaSophia Robb, Because of Winn-Dixie

Best supporting actor: Thomas Hayden Church, Sideways
runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby

Best supporting actress: Kate Winslet, Finding Neverland
runner-up: Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda

Most pleasant suprise: a tie between Because of Winn-Dixie and White Noise. Two movies where I expected shit and instead got two pretty good movies.

Biggest disappointment: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I still liked it but it's nowhere near the masterpiece I was hoping/expecting

Trippiest: The Fly, a rather strange but cool flick.
runner-up: Constantine

And the good news: NO BAD MOVIES. I liked all of the movies I saw this month. That is pretty damn cool!

[SAI]

Here is my viewing for the month. First viewings are asterisked.

1st
*The African Queen 4/5*
*Bitter Moon 3/5*

2nd
Switchblade Romance 4/5
*Drive 2/5*

3rd
*Scream Bloody Murder 1/5*

4th
Under Siege 4/5
Aileen: The Selling Of A Serial Killer 4/5
The Relic 4/5

5th
*The Fog Of War 5/5*

6th
*Summer Things 3/5*

7th
Air Force One 3/5

8th
*Legend Of A Fighter 3/5*

9th
True Lies 4/5

10th
*Session 9 3/5*
Audition 4/5
Hollow Man 3/5

13th
Die Hard 5/5

15th
*Saved! 3/5*
*Ray 3/5*

16th
*House of 1000 Corpses 2/5*

17th
*Pumpkin 1/5*

19th
*Bringing Up Baby 5/5*

20th
National Lampoon's Animal House 4/5

21st
*Head-On [Gegen Die Wand] 4/5*
*Criminal 3/5*
*Sideways 3/5*

22nd
*Mr Smith Goes To Washington 5/5*
*Murder On A Sunday Morning 4/5*

23rd
*Man On Fire 3/5*

24th
*Love Object 3/5*

26th
*Breakfast At Tiffany's 5/5*

27th
*In The Bedroom 3/5*

28th
*Snake In The Eagle's Shadow 3/5*

33 Films
23 First Viewings

Total for 2005 so far
87 Films
56 First viewings

Film Of The Month: Cinema
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Head - On [Gegen Die Wand] 4/5

Film(s) Of The Month: Home Viewing
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Bringing Up Baby 5/5

and

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Breakfast At Tiffany's 5/5

Worst Film
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Pumpkin 1/5 (Not just the worst film of this month but one of the worst I've ever had the misfortune to have pass in front of my eyes)

Best Actor: Jamie Foxx: Ray / James Stewart: Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn: Bringing Up Baby
Best Supporting Actor: Nick Stahl: In The Bedroom
Best Supporting Actress: Dakota Fanning: Man On Fire / Kerry Washington: Ray
Best Director: Fatih Akin: Head - On [Gegen Die Wand]
Biggest Surprise: Breakfast At Tiffany's
Biggest Disappointment: Sideways / Pumpkin
Best Line: David Huxley (Cary Grant) : Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments. Bringing Up Baby
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: The African Queen / Bringing Up Baby / Mr Smith Goes To Washington / Breakfast At Tiffany's

[A.J. Hakari]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Adam, if you're so busy watching movies all the time, how is it you've got time to come here and post over 31,000 times? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm truly curious.... Do you not work? All legitimate questions.... :p

I'm a pretty fast typist, so I can shoot my way through a bunch of posts in no time. That, and I have a shitload of posts in the Games forum. :D

[Trinity]

First viewings only:

5/5
1. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
2. Love Me Tonight (1932)

4/5
3. Blood and Sand (1941)
4. Applause (1929)
5. Peyton Place (1957)
6. Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
7. Rose Marie (1954)
8. The Best of Everything (1959)

3/5
9. The Girl Next Door (2004)
10. My Cousin Rachel (1952)
11. Love is News (1937)
12. Bells are Ringing (1960)
13. This Could Be the Night (1957)
14. The Main Event (1979)
15. Vigil in the Night (1940)
16. Fear in the Night (1947)
17. The Return of Frank James (1940)

2/5
18. Tobacco Road (1941)
19. Sundown (1941)
20. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
21. The Sun Also Rises (1957)

Best Movie:

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Best Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, A Very Long Engagement
Best Actress: Audrey Tautou in A Very Long Engagement
Best Actor: Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand
Best Supporting Actress: Myrna Loy in Love Me Tonight
Best Supporting Actor: Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place
Biggest Surprise: The Girl Next Door
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: Love Me Tonight
"I'm Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This": Vigil in the Night
Favorite quote: Do you ever think of anything but men? -Yes. Schoolboys. (Jeanette MacDonald & Myrna Loy in Love Me Tonight)

[Jake_Vig]

Bad month... no trips to the theater... some forced viewings... sigh

The Great
Heat, 1995 - 8.5/10 (re-watch)

The Good
I Heart Huckabees, 2004 - 8/10
Maria Full of Grace, 2004 - 8/10 (re-watch)

The Decent
Saw, 2004 - 7/10
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 2004 - 6.5/10
Ray, 2004 - 6/10
When Will I Be Loved?, 2004 - 6/10
Lackawanna Blues (HBO), 2005 - 6/10

The Bad
Pocketful of Miracles, 1961 - 5/10
The Grudge, 2004 - 5/10
Vanity Fair, 2004 - 4/10
She Hate Me, 2004 - 3.5/10
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, 2004 - 3/10

The Ugly
Resident Evil: Apocalypse, 2004 - 2/10
Barbershop 2, 2004 - 2/10
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - 1/10

Totals:
16 seen (14 new)

Of the 1st-time viewings:
Best Actor: Jaime Foxx, Ray
Best Actress: Neve Campbell, When Will I Be Loved?
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees
Best Supporting Actress: Naomi Watts, I Heart Huckabees
Best Director: David O. Russell, I Heart Huckabees
Best Picture: I Heart Huckabees
Best Screenplay: I Heart Huckabees
Biggest Surprise: Saw
Biggest Disappointment: Pocketful fo Miracles (Capra + Bette Davis = barely watchable... I wouldn't have thought so)
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: I Heart Huckabees

[Cronos]

not many this month. First-Time Viewings: only 28

10/10

Collateral
Hero

9/10

Mindhunters

8/10

Breakfast Club, The
Keeping The Faith
13 Going On 30
My Bloody Valentine
Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The

7/10

Another Day

6/10

Highlander 4: Endgame
Seconds To Spare
Above The Law
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Adrenalin: Fear The Rush
Coming To America

5/10

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
Price Of Beauty, The

4/10

Bitter Moon

3/10

54

2/10

Convoy
Housesitter
Ride The High Country
Love Liza

1/10

Greetings
Spy In The Green Hat, The
To Trap A Spy
Jacqueline
Columbo: An Exercise In Fatality


THE BEST:

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THE WORST:

Columbo

Best Actor: Jamie Foxx, COLLATERAL
Best Actress: Jennifer Garner, 13 GOING ON 30
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Slater, MINDHUNTERS
Best Supporting Actress: Ziyi Zhang, HERO
Best Director: Michael Mann, COLLATERAL
Best Original Screenplay: COLLATERAL
Best Adapted Screenplay: THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Biggest Surprise: KEEPING THE FAITH
Biggest Disappointment: 1984
Most Fucked-Up Movie: THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
"I'm Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This": ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Vincent, COLLATERAL
"Why Is He/She Still in Movies?": Paul Blake, SECONDS TO SPARE
Recurring Genre: Action Films
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Most of Highlander 4: Endgame
Best Line: Vincent: [to Max when pulled over by police] Don't get me cornered. You don't have the trunk space. COLLATERAL
Best Scene: All the Fight Scenes, HERO
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Coolest Title: MY BLOODY VALENTINE

[arto_j]

Bit of a half a month, actually, but at least I got something this time :

Maria Full of Grace - 9/10
Million Dollar Baby - 9/10

The School of Rock - 8/10
Hellboy - 8/10
Finding Neverland - 8/10
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 8/10
Open Range - 8/10

Fistful of Dollars - 7/10
The Dreamers - 7/10
The Shipping News - 7/10
The Aviator - 7/10

The Passion of the Christ - 6/10
Senso - 6/10

Dark Blue - 5/10
Day of the Dead - 4/10
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human - 3/10

First-time viewings : 16

Best film:

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Worst film: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007CVRR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Best Actor: Johnny Depp, FINDING NEVERLAND
Best Actress: Catalina Sandino Moreno, MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, THE AVIATOR
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Original Screenplay: Josh Marston, MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Haggis, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Biggest Surprise: THE SHIPPING NEWS
Biggest Disappointment: DAY OF THE DEAD
Most Fucked-Up Movie: ....dunno
"I'm Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This": SENSO might just be closest
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: JESUS CHRIST, The Passion of the Christ...He might have some issues with what I'm doing out here :D
"Why Is He/She Still in Movies?": Uh...that guy in Mating Habits
Recurring Genre: Drama, I suppose
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Attack of the Philippino Pirates in THE LIFE AQUATIC
Best Line: "What would be the scientific purpose of killing this, endangered shark?" - "Revenge." from THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
Best Scene: Clint "confessing" to the priest, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
Coolest Title: HELLBOY

[Kucha]

Sleepover - 3/10
Mrs. Doubtfire - 8/10
Pauly Shore Is Dead - 5/10
E.T - 7/10
Stand By Me - 8/10
It Could Happen To You - 7/10
Misery - 10/10
Hitch - 6/10
Boys On The Side - 7/10
Little Monsters - 5/10
The Notebook - 8/10
Eulogy - 4/10
Boy's Don't Cry - 9/10
Lost In Translation - 10/10
Million Dollar Baby - 9/10
Napoleon Dynamite - 2/10
Elle Degeneres: Here And Now - 8/10
A Civil Action - 7/10


THE BEST...
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MISERY

THE WORST...
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NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

Best Actor: Bill Murrary, LOST IN TRANSLATION
Best Actress: Hilary Swank, BOYS DONT CRY
Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Supporting Actress: Chloë Sevigny, BOYS DONT CRY
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Original Screenplay: Sofia Coppola, LOST IN TRANSLATION
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Goldman, MISERY
Biggest Surprise: MISERY
Biggest Disappointment: EULOGY
Most Fucked-Up Movie: PAULY SHORE IS DEAD
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: LOST IN TRANSLATION
Coolest Title: IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

[Tayzlor]

Total Viewings - 34
First Viewing - 27
Rewatches - 7
* = rewatch

10/10
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Five Easy Pieces*
Children of Paradise
Nights of Cabiria
Manhattan*
The Red Shoes
L’Atalante
Nashville*
Day for Night*
The Right Stuff*
3 Women
Singin’ In The Rain

9/10
Il Grido
This Is Spinal Tap*
The Grapes of Wrath
Broken Blossoms
The Searchers
Fahrenheit 451*
Red Beard
House of Games
Juliet of the Spirits
The Bicycle Thief

8/10
The Vanishing (1988)
Shane
The Big Sleep
Nosferatu
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
Collateral
A Hard Day’s Night
Dog Day Afternoon
Sanjuro

7/10
The Wizard of Oz

6/10
Scarface (1983)

5/10
N/A

4/10
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Top Ten
01. 3 Women
02. Children of Paradise
03. Nights of Cabiria
04. The Red Shoes
05. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
06. Singin' In The Rain
07. L'Atalante
08. The Grapes of Wrath
09. Il Grido
10. Broken Blossoms

Best Actor
1. Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes
2. Toshirô Mifune, Red Beard
3. Steve Cochran, Il Grido

Best Actress
1. Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
2. Shelley Duvall, 3 Women
3. Arletty, Children of Paradise

Best Supporting Actor
1. John Carradine, The Grapes of Wrath

Best Supporting Actress
1. Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath
2. Martha Vickers, The Big Sleep
3. Jean Arthur, Shane

Best Director
1. Robert Altman, 3 Women
2. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
3. Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast

[Briare Rabbit]

Since I've given up trying to correctly rate a movie, I'll just rank what I saw last month with a one or two word description.

Amount of New Watches: 19

1 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)- Masterpiece./
2 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)- Anderson is a genius. That is all.
3 Mean Creek (2004)- damn skippy
4 The Woodsman (2004)- masterful character study
5 Laputa: Caste in the Sky (1986)- cool shit; I like anime now :)
6 Rushmore (1998)- liked this a lot
7 In Good Company (2004)- hilarious, met my expectations
8 Traffic (2000)- mmmm.... drug addicted Erika Christenson
9 The Merchant of Venice (2004)- flawed but fascinating
10 Million Dollar Baby (2004)- not bad, but disappointing
11 A Love Song For Bobby Long (2004)- contrived but fun
12 Insomnia (2002)- atmospheric episode of Law & Order
13 The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)- disappointing rubbish
14 School Ties (1992)- when your film feels dated now, you're in trouble
15 Blow (2001)- tries to be Scorsese but fails
16 Around the World in 80 Days (1956)- obnoxious trash
17 The Forgotten (2004)- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
18 Demons of Ludlow (1983)- shit with a hilarious hand.
19 Soul Take (1989)- pure shit

[bigred760]

Only saw one new movie: Constantine - 7/10

Most of the other movies I watched were on Turner Classic Movies (gotta love 31 Days of Oscar) including: Bridge on the River Kwai, Fiddler on the Roof and The Dirty Dozen

Also watched She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Quiet Man on AMC.

Plus Aladdin and Animal House at home.

[Fisting Ackbar]

Ranked from best to worst:


THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 10/10 (rewatch)

OLDBOY 9/10 (twice) (rewatch)
LA MEGLIO GIOVENTÙ (THE BEST OF YOUTH) 9/10
CLERKS 9/10 (rewatch)
THE AVIATOR (2004) 9/10
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 9/10

YOJIMBO 8/10
PERSONA 8/10
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE 8/10 (rewatch)
GATTACA 8/10
ÊTRE ET AVOIR (TO BE AND TO HAVE) 8/10
THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI 8/10
PLEASANTVILLE 8/10
VERA DRAKE 8/10

THE MACHINIST 7/10
THE WOODSMAN 7/10
THE SEA INSIDE 7/10
GO (1999) 7/10
THE SON (2002) 7/10
I HEART HUCKABEES 7/10
CONSTANTINE 7/10
GISELE KEROZENE 7/10 (short)
THE CONVERSATION 7/10
INFERNAL AFFAIRS III 7/10

THREE... EXTREMES 6/10
DUMPLINGS 6/10
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (2005) 6/10
GOZU 6/10
THE MEXICAN 6/10
THE EDUKATORS 6/10

OLD MEN IN NEW CARS 5/10
ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER 5/10
PRIMER 5/10

STIGMATA 4/10 (rewatch)
HIDE AND SEEK 4/10
KEN PARK 4/10

STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION 3/10
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) 3/10

ALONE IN THE DARK (2005) 1/10



Best Actor: Christian Bale - THE MACHINIST
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton - VERA DRAKE
Best Supporting Actor: Jude Law - GATTACA
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett - THE AVIATOR (2004)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese - THE AVIATOR (2004)
Best Original Screenplay: LA MEGLIO GIOVENTÙ
Biggest Surprise: ÊTRE ET AVOIR
Biggest Disappointment: PRIMER
Most Fucked-Up Movie: tie between GOZU and DUMPLINGS
"I'm Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This": OLD MEN IN NEW CARS
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: That fucked up psycho kid who likes to strangle himself while jerking off - KEN PARK
"Why Is He/She Still in Movies?": Tara Reid - ALONE IN THE DARK (2005)
Ultimate WTF? Moment: The ending of GOZU
Best Scene: The erotic monologue in PERSONA
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin' See: YOJIMBO

[Hannibal21]

1. Citizen Kane - 5/5 (in theatres)
2. Some Like it Hot - 5/5
3. Wild Strawberries - 5/5
4. (TIE) Aparajito/The World of Apu - 5/5*
6. Paris, Texas - 5/5*
7. Double Indemnity - 5/5
8. LOTR: ROTK EE - 5/5*
9. Suspiria - 4/5
10. Black Narcissus - 4/5*
11. The Last Seduction - 4/5
12. Diabolique - 4/5
13. Freaks - 4/5*
14. Tess - 4/5
15. About Schmidt - 4/5
16. Million Dollar Baby - 4/5
17. Kiss Me Deadly - 4/5*
18. Sideways - 4/5
19. Europa Europa - 4/5*
20. Finding Neverland - 3/5*
21. Hotel Rwanda - 3/5*
22. Days of Heaven - 3/5*
23. The Man Who Wasn't There - 3/5*
24. Knife in the Water - 3/5*
25. In Good Company - 3/5*
26. Super Size Me - 3/5*
27. Three Strange Loves - 3/5*
28. The Corn Is Green - 3/5*
29. Vanity Fair - 3/5*
30. Twilight - 3/5*
31. Hitch - 3/5*
32. Ray - 3/5*
33. We Don't Live Here Anymore - 3/5*
34. Kings Row - 3/5*
35. Hide and Seek - 2/5*
36. The Vanishing - 2/5*
37. Mona Lisa Smile - 2/5*
38. P.S. - 2/5*
39. Constantine - 2/5*
40. Head in the Clouds - 2/5*
41. The St. Francisville Experiment - 2/5*
42. Sleepaway Camp 2 - 1/5*
43. Boogeyman - 0/5*

[Hannibal21]

AWARDS (only first viewings eligible):

BEST MOVIE(S): Aparajito/The World of Apu (tie)
WORST MOVIE: Boogeyman
BEST ACTOR: Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas
BEST ACTRESS: Deborah Kerr in Black Narcissus
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu in The Vanishing
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Natassja Kinski in Paris, Texas
MOST DISAPPOINTING MOVIE: The Vanishing
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Vanity Fair
MOST FUCKER UP MOVIE: Freaks
MOVIE I FINALLY GOT TO FRICKIN' SEE: Paris, Texas
FAVORITE SCENE: Second and final confrontation between Stanton and Kinski in Paris, Texas
BEST MONOLOGUE: (warning: SPOILERS!!!!)

I knew these people. These two people. They were in love with each other. The girl was very young, about 17 or 18, I guess. The guy was quite a bit older. He was kind of raggedy and wild. And she was very beautiful, you know? And together they turned everything into kind of an adventure and she liked that. Just an ordinary trip down to the grocery store was full of adventure. They were always laughing at stupid things. He liked to make her laugh. And they didn't much care for anything else because all they wanted to do was be with each other. They were always together. He loved her more than he ever felt possible. He couldn't stand being away fron her, uh, during the day when he went to work, so he quit just to be home with he. Then he'd get another job when the money ran out and then he'd quit again. But pretty soon she started to worry....about money, I guess, not having enough, not knowing when the next check was coming in. So he started to get kind of torn inside. He knew he had to work to support her but he couldn't stand being away from her either, and the more he was away from her, the crazier he got, except now he got really crazy. He started imagining all kinds of things. He started thinking that she was seeing other men on the sly. He'd come home from work and accuse her of spending the day with somebody else. He'd yell at her and break things in the trailer. They lived in a trailer home. Anyway, he started to drink real bad, and he's stay out late to test her, to see if she'd ever get jealous of him. Jealousy was a sign of her love for him. And then one night, one night she told him that she was pregnant. She was about three or four months pregnant and he didn't even know. And then suddenly everything changed. He stopped drining and got a steady job. He was convinced that she loved him now because she was carrying his child, and he was going to dedicate himself to making a home for her. But a funny thing started to happen. He didn't even notice it at first. She started to change. From the day the baby was born, she began to get irritated with everything around her, she got mad at everything. Even the baby seemed to be an injustice to her. He kept trying to make everything all right for her, buy her things, take her out to dinner once a week, but nothing seemed to satisfy her. For two years, he struggled to pull them back together like they were when they first met, but finally he knew that it was never gonna work out. So he hit the bottle again, but this time, it got mean. This time, when he came home late at night, she wasn't worried about him or jealous, she was just enraged. She accused him of holding her captive, of making her have a baby. She told him that she dreamed about escaping. That was all she dreamed about - escape. She saw herself at night, running down riverbeds, always running. And always, just when she was about to get away, he'd be there. He would stop her somehow, he would just appear and stop her. And when she told him these dreams, he believed them. He knew she had to be stopped, or she'll leave him forever, so he tied a cowbell to her ankle so he could hear at night if she tried to get out of bed. But she learned how to muffle the bell by stuffing a sock into it and inching her way out of the bed and into the night. He caught her one night and when the sock fell out, and he he heard her trying to run to the highway. He caught her and dragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove with his belt. He just left her there and went back to bed and lay there, listening to her screams. Then he listened to his son scream. He was surprised at himself because he didn't feel anything anymore. All he wanted to do was sleep. And for the first time, he wished he were far away, lost in a deep, vast country where nobody knew him, somewhere without language or streets. And he dreamed about this place without knowing its name, and when he woke up, he was on fire. There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed. He ran through the flames toward the only two people he loved, but they were gone. His arms were burning and he threw himself outside and rolled on the wet ground. Then he ran, He never looked back at the fire, he just ran. He ran until the sun came up, and he couldn't run any further. Then when the sun went down, he ran again. For five days, he ran like this, until every sign of man had disappeared. - Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), Paris Texas

[zeppelin]

1. Pleasantville- A
2. On Golden Pond- A-
3. The Wrong Man- A-
4. Ordinary People- A-
5. In the Line of Fire- A-
6. Amarcord- B+
7. The Fabulous Baker Boys- B+
8. Rebel Without a Cause- B+
9. Nights of Cabiria- B

[The Other]

I didn't post any of my February ratings anywhere, not even in the "What Film/s Have You Seen Today?" thread.

For me, it was a pretty average month, lot's of 3/5s:

Scale: 1/5 = Hated It; 2/5 = Did Not Like It, 3/5 = Liked It; 4/5 = Really Liked It; 5/5 = Loved It

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) - 3/5
The Merry Widow (1934) - 3/5
Mean Creek (2004) - 4/5
The Crowd (1928) - 5/5
The Guardsman (1931) - 3/5
Anna Christie (1930) - 3/5
Their Own Desire (1929) - 2/5
The Big House (1930) - 5/5
Beauty and the Beast (1946) - 5/5
Written on the Wind (1956) - 3/5
The Grudge (2004) - 3/5
Being Julia (2004) - 3/5
Dodsworth (1936) - 4/5
Street Scene (1931) - 4/5
Twentieth Century (1934) - 4/5
Hitch (2005) - 3/5

Total: 16

BEST MOVIE: The Crowd (1928)
WORST MOVIE: Their Own Desire (1929)
--I love Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, but this was a pretty bad early melodrama.

BEST DIRECTOR: Jean Cocteau - Beauty and the Beast (1946)
BEST ACTOR: Jean Marais - Beauty and the Beast (1946)
BEST ACTRESS: Annette Bening - Being Julia (2004)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Robert Montgomery - The Big House (1930)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mary Astor - Dodsworth (1936)

BIGGEST SURPRISE: Street Scene (1931), I suppose.
MOVIE I'M SURE NO ONE ELSE HAS SEEN: Street Scene (1931) & Their Own Desire (1929) - tie
MOVIE I FINALLY GOT TO SEE: The Big House (1930) & Twentieth Century (1934) - tie

[wyodebbie]

Movies Watched February 2005
* first viewing 1 = bad 2 = fair 3 = good 3.5 = very good 4 = great
End Of Violence 2.5/4
Letter To Three Wives 3.5/4
Lethal Weapon 2.5/4
8 Women 3/4
One-Eyed Jacks 3/4
Snows Kilimanjaro 2.5/4
*Straight Talk 1/4
Life Is Beautiful 3/4
*Godsend 2.5/4
Lifeboat 3/4
Thorn Birds 3.5/4
*Troy 2.5/4
*Taking Lives 3/4
*Stepford Wives 2.5/4
*Laws Of Attraction 3/4
Limbo 3/4
Autumn In New York 3/4
*Man In The Moon 3/4
Limey 2.5/4
*Tango And Cash 1/4
*Kill Bill Vol. 2 3/4
Lolita 3.5/4
Summer And Smoke 3/4
*Bon Voyage 3/4
Holy Smoke 2.5/4
Heat 3.5/4
Two Weeks Notice 2.5/4
Lion In Winter 3.5/4
When A Man Loves A Woman 3/4
*Reckoning 3/4
Little Big Man 3.5/4
Others 3/4
Dark Obsession 2.5/4
*One Eyed King 2.5/4
*Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 4/4
Italian Job 3/4
Limeric Region 2.5/4
Unfaithful 3/4
Kalifornia 3/4
Little Women 3/4
Basic Instinct 3/4
*Hidalgo 3/4
A Little Romance 3/4
*Jersey Girl 2.5/4